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A New Year’s Resolution for All: Resolve to Stop Using These Words!

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Earlier this month Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, from its home base midway between the bright lights of New York City and the state capitol of Albany in scenic Poughkeepsie, surveyed nearly 1,200 adults to find out which word irritates them most. The winner . . . by a landslide . . . is […]

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Sacrificing Too Much for Success? 15 Warning Signs

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“Despite excellent performance and good money the worker always seems tired and is rarely happy.” If this describes you, you may be sacrificing too much in the chase for material success. A recent blurb by John Brandon in INC Magazine about the concept of over-sacrifice made me stop and think about high achievers and workaholics. […]

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Unexpected Termination: Now What?

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10 Tips to Help Land on Your Feet The reciprocal post-World War II loyalty bond between workers and employers has long since evaporated. Back then jobs were careers and workers enjoyed an implied assumption of continued employment. Businesses benefited because they could assume a stable, loyal workforce. Technology — specifically the invention of digital technology […]

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Why Core Values are Integral to Success

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When people leave one company for another, a major success or failure factor in their new assimilation is how well they match the existing culture. Bad fits rarely make it. Alignment of these core values is important for a number of reasons. From the company perspective Companies are nothing more than a collection of people […]

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Signficant Emotional Events: What They Are & How They Change Lives

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2 November 2013 Our map of the world is shaped by a variety of influences during our formative years, ages 0-to-13. Contributors include our family unit, friends, relatives, religion, socioeconomic status, schooling, neighborhood, teachers, coaches, life experiences, and more. Because of these things, who we are as an adult is fairly well formed by our […]

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Office Morale: Why It Is . . . The Way It Is

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Anticipation vs. Realization Why Workplace Attitudes Are What They Are Complex dynamics — such as company morale — do not necessarily require exceedingly complex explanations. In simple terms, organizational emotions are shaped by the relationship between two things, what people expect and what they experience. What people expect. What do workers — individually and collectively […]

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Situational Management: Do You Lead or Manage?

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The term “situational management” refers to the unexpected need for decision-making driven by surfacing circumstance. These “one-offs” are usually unpredictable; and because of that they force us to act or react to make decisions and take action based on a blend of unfamiliar data points. The four steps to effective situational management are: Seek and […]

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